Crohn's & Colitis UK

Supports families and researchers in the United Kingdom with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis research funding.

Crohn's & Colitis UK is a UK-registered health research charity founded in 1979 and based in Hatfield. It funds research into Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and other inflammatory bowel diseases, and it supports the roughly 1 in 120 people in the UK living with these conditions. The charity is registered in England and Wales and in Scotland, which underlines its national remit.

It runs one targeted project-grant call each year for UK-based university, research institute, and NHS researchers, with a main route up to £150,000 and a joint epidemiology call with Coeliac UK up to £125,000. Funded studies may qualify for NIHR Study Support Services, and applications move through Flexigrant rather than an open general portal.

Its research giving is narrow and disease-specific rather than broad or institutional. The charity backs studies that improve understanding of IBD in the UK setting, and its co-funded calls show a preference for focused questions that benefit from charity partnership and clinical research infrastructure. The current program line is aimed at researchers who can deliver directly useful patient- and service-relevant evidence.